NBA ALL-STAR SKILLS CHALLENGE

Saturdays, in the All-Star almost everybody has a chance to appear in the different contests and games: rookies, legends, leapers, shooters,
women... so the NBA decided to create a new contest in 2003 for the
playmakers.

Skills Challenge consists in a timed obstacle course that includes dribbling, passing, and shooting stations.

Four point guards and four versatile big men, the first time in the
history of the Skills Challenge that multiple non-guards competed.

Towns is by far the taller player to win the contest. Isaiah Thomas and
him really wanted to win the contest. They both made the chest pass at
the first attempt and after missing a few three-pointers, Karl Anthony
Towns won the 'photo-finish' ending.

Beverley took the contest by surprise. He arrived as a
substitute for John Wall, beat Isaiah Thomas with a last second layup,
and in the last 2 rounds after some troubles with the passing station
made a 3 pointer to defeat Jeff Teague and Brandon Knight.

The contest has a format change for this year. The competition has a bracket
where two players will compete face to face each time without timekeeper.

There is also a big change on the different stations of the contest. After the
dribbling, pass and layup, each player has to make another layup on the opposite
rim and come back to make a three shot to finish the lap.

Results:

2003-2014 Rules

1. First of all a layup.

2.Easy zigzag dribbling.

3 and 4.Put the ball in a basket making
a 'normal' pass and a bounce pass.

Damian Lillard won his second consecutive title (third
player to do it after Steve Nash and Dwyane Wade) in a different
competition format. Players competed in pairs, completing the course
both players. Passing stations were shortened from three passes to a
single chest pass.

There were four players from East conference and four more from West
conference. The pairs with the highest score from each conference
after the first round competed on the final.

Blazers rookie Damian Lillard got a big win,
becoming the first player with 2 marks under 30
seconds in the same contest.
The players with the highest score from each conference
after the first round will compete head-to-head on the final. Tony
Parker lost his chances missing all the shot from the top of the key,
and there were some laughs when Jeff Teague missed a layup.

Tony Parker needed 3 attempts to win this contest. That was the first
time two players had to make a tiebreaker round to advance to the final.
Also, it was the first contest with 3 players with
less than 30 seconds scores, all of them in
the first round.

4 of the best PG of the NBA were ready to inaugurate this contest and get the title of most complete point guard.
In the first round, each one of the 4 players improved the best time, arriving to the final two Oakland players: Gary Payton and Jason Kidd, with the best time for Payton.
In the final, Kidd almost repeated his semifinals time and it seemed that Payton would be the winner, but the Sonics player needed 5 second more than Kidd to complete all the stations.